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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Mike Toth: Media Critic

Before anyone takes Mike Toth too seriously when he starts to act as a media critic, burying vastly superior broadcasters on the air, let us take a moment, and remember the time when Mr. Fun Stuff said the following on the air in the middle of a highlight package:

Besides, if TSN reports something, does that mean Sportsnet shouldn't report it if they don't find out until later? The Tao and the Drunks may be similar media outlets but they are different blogs and not everyone reads both.

Maybe you should change your blog to analysis of the career of Jenny McCarthy. I mention this because I just saw a commercial for her movie Witless Protection and it reminded of when I first saw her in Playboy and then I felt sad.

But then the star of that movie is Larry the Cable Guy and I see DJF (who are quite good) compared Toth to Larry the Cable Guy. Anonymous would probably accuse you of ripping them off again.

Toth arguing with Wilner about baseball is like someone who owns every one of Nickelback's CDs debating music with a graduate from the Juilliard. There's no way they can even talk to each other, and they both think they're right.

Toth actually wrote this week that's there "something seriously wrong" with John Gibbons, who only had a cup of coffee in the majors, being the Jays manager while Gary Carter manages in a bus league.

There doesn't seem to be a hard-and-fast rule whether being a good player informs how well you'd fare as a manager.

Anecdotally, Ted Williams' winning percentage as a manager was .429 -- not much higher than what he hit back in '41.

Look at some of the Hall of Fame managers ... Earl Weaver never played in the majors. Nor did Joe McCarthy or Billy Southworth. Tommy Lasorda's lifetime pitching record was 0-4. Walter Alston got one at-bat in the majors. Sparky Anderson hit .218 with no homers in his one-and-only season in the bigs.

Tony La Russa got 176 at-bats in the majors spread out across 11 years and hit .199 with zero home runs.